The components of UDS Enterprise UDS Server and UDS Tunneler can be configured in high availability (HA) so that in case any of these items drop, either due to a failure of the hypervisor that hosts or failure of the Virtual Appliance itself, a user or administrator does not lose access to the system.
Citrix, one of VirtualCable’s technology alliances, has certified that UDS Enterprise has successfully undergone the verification tests to ensure full compatibility with XenServer 6.5.
The VDI connection broker already had Citrix Ready certification for XenServer 6.2., which guarantees seamless integration of both solutions, and now adds Citrix Ready for XenServer 6.5.
In previous posts we analyzed 4 of the 5 UDS Enterprise components: UDS Server, UDS Tunneler, UDS Database and UDS Actor. Today it is UDS Plugin‘s turn, the last of UDS Enterprise components.
This software is installed in the connection client device (it supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS) to enable the connection to the different remote desktop services managed by UDS Enterprise through any connection protocol (transport) except HTML5.
Another UDS Enterprise key component is UDS Actor. It is the software responsible for the communication between the VDI connection broker and the different desktop services managed by UDS Enterprise: virtual and static desktops, applications…
This component configures virtual desktops according to the OS Manager set by the platform administrator, that contains some desktop features (operating system, persistent/non persistent, joined to domain…). In addition, it transmits data like the virtual desktop state, machine name, IP address, MAC, etc… so that the admin totally controls the virtual desktop at any time.
UDS Enterprise connection broker requires a database to store all UDS system data, both from system setup (service providers, authenticators, transports…) and registries (users accesses to services, use of service pools, log…). The system uses all these data stored in the DB to generate reports and statistics, which are really useful to analyze the platform use and hence optimize its performance.
At the beginning of this week we talked about one of UDS Enterprise’s components, UDS Server. In this post we’re going to analyze the features and functionalities of UDS Enterprise Tunneler.
UDS Tunneler has two main roles: it performs secure connections to remote desktop services through WAN and enables HTML5 access to these services.
